Religion
In reply to the discussion: The two big things I think religion provides that secularism does not. [View all]Warpy
(111,581 posts)to think that no atheist has ever considered what kind of world he or she wants to live in and has developed the same sort of ethics that religious people have gotten from on high.
That part of your post is disgraceful. You need to get out more and meet a few atheists who are courageous enough to come out of that "I'm not religious" closet most of us hide in to avoid being pilloried by religious types who think we have no ethics.
The second is partially true in that many of us are not "joiners." So are many religious people. The community we prefer is the community we live in every day, not an artificial one centered around a building where people sit and hope for god to show up.
And now here's some reading for you to do: http://www.alternet.org/belief/9-questions-atheists-might-find-insulting-and-answers?page=0%2C1&paging=off